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Christmas tournament. Our game delayed until 9:40 pm, for a 6th grade girls game! Everyone eager to start. Other coach comes over to my bench, introduces himself and says how glad he is that we joined the tournament, good luck, blah, blah, blah. I sit down, the girls get on the floor and the next thing I know this "nice" coach has jumped off the bench onto the floor and he is screaming at the officials, screaming at this team and screaming, I think, to hear himself scream. The game was aggressive and his girls had lots of fouls called. He screamed some more. The game was a tied with 30 seconds left, his player hits a three. He calls a time out and "SCREAMS" at his girls on how badly they are playing then yells at the officials for not calling traveling on on of my players who was on her knees. It was called a jump ball. It's 10:30 pm, these are 6th grade girls. My team can't pull a win out with two baskets in less then 30 seconds.
My girls came over to the bench during the time out. The only answer I have for them is that the other coach is freaky. They laughed, we lost, they played their hearts out and the officials rolled their eyes as the other coach berated his 11 year olds after the game for not "creaming" my green team.
I honestly don't understand coaches, and I am one.
thanks for listening,
Coach G.
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